What jobs would YOU do for $50 per hour?

[jmowreader]

Poll question: What jobs would YOU do for $50 per hour?

John McCain says Americans wouldn't pick lettuce for $50 per hour.

The American worker will do a lot worse for a lot less.

What jobs would YOU do for $50 per hour?

[Theres-a]

1. He can kiss

My big fat ass.

[BlueEyedSon]

2. Does #8 mean feeding & changing the twins?

[jmowreader]

11. Nope. Beating paparazzi and posting bail

They're college graduates. I at least HOPE they can use a fork and a toilet.

What they CAN'T use is common sense.

[waiting for hope]

3. John McCain lives in the bubble

with the rest of the patriotic pukes......I'd pick lettuce for $50.00 an hour - think of the great tan and work out I could get!

[nickinSTL]

4. I think I'll skip the explosives handler...

I'm not too keen on being blown up.

[Atman]

5. Kick McCain in the nuts repeatedly.

Hey, even if I only lasted an hour, the $50 would be good coin for an honest hour's work.

[shenmue]

6. Has McCain ever had to work an hourly wage job?

Or on a farm?

Does he even know what he's talking about?

The hell with him.

[leftstreet]

23. John Sydney McCain III

Senator John McCain was born in Coco Solo in the U.S controlled Panama Canal Zone to Scottish-American parents. Both his father and grandfather were prominent U.S. Navy admirals (John S. McCain, Jr. and John S. McCain, Sr.). He attended Episcopal High School and graduated in 1954. That fall, McCain, like his father and grandfather, entered the United States Naval Academy. He has admitted that he disliked the life of a midshipman. Accordingly, McCain was a lackluster student and received many demerits. He graduated in 1958, and joked that he had followed the footsteps of his father and grandfather, both of whom had graduated very low in their respective classes at Annapolis. (McCain graduated 894th out of a class of 899.) In 1965, McCain married Carol Shepp, a model originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The couple divorced in 1980.


McCain lives with his second wife Cindy Hensley McCain in Phoenix. She is the chair of the large Anheuser-Busch beer and liquor distributor Hensley Distributing founded by her father.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_mccain

[panader0]

7. I've been a bricklayer for 35 years $16 an hour

[Ganja Ninja]

8. Is that before or after taxes?

[ellenfl]

9. i didn't even bother to read them all. i went straight for

all of the above. that's almost twice what i make now as a paralegal.

ellen fl

[noonwitch]

10. I'd definitely nanny the Bush kids, as they are adults

Easy job that would involve lots of hanging out in bars, and shopping in high-end malls for new clothes. It would be fun.

[calmblueocean]

12. Do lettuce pickers really get $50 an hour?.

That just doesn't seem right to me. For $50 an hour, I could get two friends to do the job with me. We'd each do a third of the job and make $16.50 an hour, which is still a pretty decent wage.

[jmowreader]

22. I think they receive this every hour

Two dollars
A canteen of water
A chit--save up four of them and you can redeem them for a five-minute bathroom break
One threat of getting La Migra called in on them if they don't pick more heads per hour

No American will ever be hired to pick lettuce because the growers' most effective motivational technique--work or get deported--won't work on someone who isn't eligible for deportation.

If lettuce pickers really got $50 per hour, lettuce would be around $5 per head more than it is.

[calmblueocean]

24. Exactly.

So why did McCain make the "$50" crack? Does *he* think people are getting paid $50 an hour to pick lettuce? It's just bizarre.

[jmowreader]

26. Why McCain made the $50 crack

Bush has decided there are jobs Americans won't do, hence the need for illegal immigrants.

His new friend John McCain basically said, "you wouldn't do this even if we paid you ten times the going rate." IOW, distortion of the truth to make a point. (And since this administration looks at truth through funhouse mirrors...)

McCain knows no one gets paid $50 per hour to pick lettuce...nor to do much of anything else. $400/day jobs are extremely hard to come by.

[calmblueocean]

31. Now it all makes sense.

Sometimes I just can't wrap my mind around the twisted way they think.

[Wickerman]

13. Hell, over summers I did the equivalent for a quarter above

minimum wage. Blazing hot scrap yards on cutting torches, road work, nursing home ass wiping, bartending to Republican frat boys, janitor in K-Mart - whatever it took to pay for college. I know for certain there are many Americans out there now doing the same - and they would be lucky to get that 25 cents above minimum, even today. McCain is a moran.

[Arkansas Granny]

14. Any of the above.

This vote comes to you from someone who has, in the past, vaccinated baby chickens for minimum wage.

[devilgrrl]

15. Love the Freeper responses...

sorry kids, you're too stupid to be bartenders or nannies.

[melissinha]

16. Are you responding to Randi's argument?

She was basically saying that if being a lobbyist only paid $5, no one would do it..... its that americans will do most jobs, only at a fair price.... so yes, we would do most anything for $50 an hour. There are only a few things I wouldn't do... shill for Republicans....

Now nanny for the Bushes, I would SO do that, it would give you the chance to un-brainwash them to become real decent people.....

[old_techie]

17. Sure looks good to me

Done software for 17 an hour, chemical analysis for less than 3.

[Sinti]

18. Don't know how long I could manage 7 & 8

But I sure would give it a shot until my head exploded.

Worked as a cog in the DoD spin control apparatus for $25 an hour until I couldn't live with myself anymore. (may the gods forgive me)

[Jim__]

19. $50/hour is $100K/Year

McCain has his head up his ass if he doesn't think Americans would pick lettuce for that.

I lived in Oregon when Reagan was president. They had a crackdown on illegal immigrants. All the apple growers in the Hood River area started complaining that the apples were going to rot on the trees because no Americans would do the work. About 2 days later, the farmers were placing ads on TV and radio in the Portland area telling people not to come to Hood River looking for work. Apparently the area was overwhelmed with Americans who had come to pick the apples.

[Coexist]

20. I have been a chambermaid at a dive motel

and a bartender at a place where creepy locals hang out.

And I was pleasant the entire time. For $50/hour, I would have done it and had a shit-eating Disney-employee-worthy grin on my face from punch-in until punch-out.

[MercutioATC]

21. If I were unemployed, or instead of the job I have now?

If the former, any of them.

The latter? None of them.

[wellst0nev0ter]

25. So Much For Honoring American Work Ethic

unless "work ethic" means working for pennies a day with no room for improvement.

[B Calm]

27. Actually I would love bar tending to a bunch of republicans..

[Berserker]

28. I would

pick lettuce for $50 per hour untill I dropped every day.

[WestSeattle2]

29. OMG, I had forgotten about that hideous smell until just now...

when I saw your "grease trap pumper" option! Ewwwwww.....I wonder how many people are familar with the smell of good ol' restaurant grease that is weeks old lying in a floor trap....It's really one of the most repulsive odors I've been subjected to!

[NYC]

30. I assume the ship is in drydock.

I've chosen barnacle scraper.

[Liberal In Texas]

32. You forgot FOX employee. I did that for half the price.

And am so glad I'm not anymore.

[tom_paine]

33. All except 8: Being Nanny to Little Satans can get you killed

Which one of Marvin Little Monsters murdered their Nanny by rolling the car over her?

Naturally, we'll never know. As with all Imperial Family murders, it was an "accident"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A46190-2003Oct5¬Found=true

Your life isn't worth a fucking penny if the Imperial Family, whichever of them and for whatever the reason they want you dead.

Then you're dead and no one will lift a finger.

[kestrel91316]

34. Hell, I'd even clean toilets all day for $50 an hour.